Border Crossings Auction – Perfect Vision 20/20: Looking Forward 2021

February 2028, 2021
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LOT 38

Lot 38

GEOFFREY JAMES

GEOFFREY JAMES
Lot 38 Details
GEOFFREY JAMES

COLVILLE ON THE TANTRAMAR MARSH, 1971

Archival pigment print
Includes a Canada Post Official First Day Cover and a Postcard with the Stamp
10.5 ins x 15.5 ins; 26.7 cms x 39.4 cms

Estimate $3,200-$3,800

Sold For: $1,600
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GEOFFREY JAMES
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Provenance:

Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto

Note:

Geoffrey James read Modern History at Oxford and began photographing in the early '70s.

He is the author or subject of more than a dozen monographs dealing with various forms of the man-made landscape and has exhibited widely with solo shows at the Palazzo Braschi in Rome, the Americas Society in New York and the National Gallery of Canada.

James is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Governor-General’s Prize for Visual and Media Arts and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. He lives in Toronto, where he was the city’s first Photolaureate. James is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Geoffrey James, MoMA
Revisiting the Mexico-America Border, 2018

CONDITION DETAILS

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